Lao Wang is doing acupuncture with Kevin Johnson and Drexler. The glider arrived here the day before yesterday and has been doing acupuncture for two days.
"Old K, I envy you so much. The owner of the Suns traded Barkley for you, and the Lightning also fully assisted you. Look what the Magic are doing to me now? That damn rookie wants to crawl on my head and shit.
Pee, and management ignored me."
"Old K, I'll go to the sun, you go to magic and help me kill that guy."
"Old K, if you have 50 in a row, you will have as many ball rights as you can consume. Look at me, my data is not as good as last season. That guy didn't even pass the ball to me. He completely dominated the ball.
I can only play a second offense, grab defensive rebounds and then launch a one-stop fast break, otherwise the ball will not come back after it is passed out."
"And old K..."
"Shut up!"
O'Neal rambled on for a long time, and Lao Wang was really tired of listening to it.
He broke out in three consecutive games, not only scoring, but also taking on the responsibility in terms of rebounding, defense, and even organization, etc., and even had to run fast breaks in many cases, which was very difficult for his physical fitness and even his spirit.
It was a huge consumption. Compared with when Lightning was around, his physical energy consumption increased exponentially. With his current level 101 physical energy, he couldn't hold on anymore. He really didn't want to listen to O'Neal's nagging anymore.
"Come on, shark, I'll treat you to hot pot."
He waved, called O'Neal to the table, pointed to a pot of chili pepper water and said: "What a good thing, it can make you feel good from the top of your head to the soles of your feet..."
"Is it from the top of the head to the anus, like Dameng and the others?"
O'Neill looked at the pot of boiling red soup, smelling the choking smell in his nose, his face twitched involuntarily, and he cursed angrily: "Old K, you are so bad, don't even think about harming me, last time
The media reported that you invited gliders and others to eat that stuff. I won't be fooled. I want to take medicinal food tonight. I didn't attend the party. Now you have to compensate me."
"Okay, okay, okay."
As long as O'Neal can keep his mouth shut, everything else will be fine, so Lao Wang quickly agreed.
The hot pot on the table today was not eaten by him, but by Lightning and Glider. These two guys have become obsessed with hot pot recently and eat it every day. After eating hot pot, they also use his medicinal food.
He and O'Neal came to the acupuncture room, where Drexler and Kevin Johnson were getting up from the massage table, and the acupuncture had been completed.
O'Neill asked curiously: "Lightning, glider, are these things really useful?"
"Of course it works. You'll see if you try it. It will work immediately." Kevin Johnson said with a smile, and Drexler quickly nodded in agreement.
"Old K, why don't you introduce me to me?" O'Neill glared at Lao Wang and said dissatisfiedly.
"Sorry, there are only 100 acupuncturists in the K martial arts gym at present, all of which are concentrated in the three branches. If you need this service, you can only come to the martial arts gym. Of course, if you really need door-to-door service, it is not impossible, just contact us
The doctor's knife cost is the same, 20,000 US dollars a time." Lao Wang introduced with a smile.
"Are you going to eat people? Damn capitalists!" O'Neill said angrily.
Glider then asked: "Old K, there are Chinese medicine practitioners in Houston's Chinatown, how are their skills?"
"That's hard to say, you can try." Lao Wang curled his lips, this damn guy actually learned how to shop around?
However, he has hired very good Chinese medicine practitioners who are good at acupuncture from China, and the service quality is guaranteed. You will know this if you have suffered losses outside the glider, so he does not intend to lower the price. The K martial arts gym only has the most expensive ones, and for those who have
For wealthy people, the most expensive is the best. If it is cheap, people will not look down on it and it will be downgraded.
Drexler scratched his head, forget it. He gets acupuncture here for five hundred dollars a time, in Chinatown for ten dollars, and there are also five-dollar ones. It seems too cheap and not very reliable. Cheap products are not good.
It’s still more expensive but guaranteed.
When preparing to eat, Zhang Liyi and five others from CCTV came over. CCTV will broadcast tomorrow's game live, just in time for the meal. No, they should come here specifically to have a meal.
Next, the nine people ate three cans of medicinal food and a table of hot pot, and they were sweating all over.
Of course, O'Neill didn't dare to try hot pot. He was afraid of spicy food, so I got him a pot of potato stewed beef brisket.
In fact, the hot pot prepared by Lao Wang has been improved. It is not so spicy and does not have so much oil. In addition, some dipping sauces have been prepared, and it tastes good.
"Old K, two more cans."
O'Neill was very rude and ate a can by himself. He almost swallowed it with his tongue. Not even a drop of soup was left. He wanted more after finishing the meal.
"No, this thing needs to be customized. I only arranged two copies here. The extra one belongs to my brothers, and there is no more." Lao Wang said angrily.
"mean."
O'Neill was dissatisfied.
"Do you want to make a reservation?" Lao Wang asked.
O'Neill opened his mouth. Three thousand dollars a serving was too expensive. It didn't treat injuries or illnesses. It was just for one bite. It was too expensive. He gritted his teeth and shook his head.
Kevin Johnson and Drexler just smiled and were not surprised at all by O'Neal's reaction.
They are also reluctant to spend money on food. This is not as good as medicated baths and medicated oils. Although those two are expensive, they are good for their careers. Medicinal diets are not available. They are not stupid and do not really believe that these things are really like old people.
K said, it can prolong life.
"mean."
Lao Wang cursed back.
After the medicated diet was promoted, the response was really good, but the effect cannot be seen in a short time, especially the effect of prolonging life cannot be studied, and the effect of beautifying the skin cannot be seen in a short time. Medicinal diet is not a beauty product, in fact it is not a beauty product.
There is no way to prove its effect, so now it is recognized for its taste rather than its curative effect. It is just regarded as a delicacy.
As a delicacy, the price of 3,000 US dollars is too expensive. Customers eat very little. Only real billionaires eat it without any scruples, so the sales volume is not large.
Anyway, he doesn't plan to lower the price. If it does, the style of the entire K martial arts gym will drop. It doesn't matter if he doesn't make any money from the medicinal diet.
"Old K, Shark, do you want to compete in tomorrow's game?" Su Qun asked with a smile.
"Can he get the ball? If he wants to attack, he can only rely on himself to grab offensive rebounds." Lao Wang looked at O'Neal with disdain.
O'Neill wanted to refute, but he had no confidence. He was so angry that his fat face was shaking, and he was extremely depressed.
"Anyway, I can't let you chop 50 off my head." He said to Lao Wang with a tigerish face.
Lao Wang did not refute this point. Without outside support, O'Neal's offense decreased and he could indeed devote more energy to the defensive end. He has scored 50 points in three consecutive games. It is too difficult to continue this kind of performance on O'Neal.
He didn't want to blow his cover or be ridiculed later.
"Shaq, did you really fall out with your little brother?" In order to change the subject, he asked curiously.
"You bastard!" O'Neal said angrily.
"When you introduced Hardaway to me before, you said he was your little brother, I remember." Lao Wang said.
"Pfft!"
Lightning and Zhang Lili burst into laughter instantly.
"..."
O'Neal almost died of anger. He realized that he had come to the wrong place today. This bastard, Old K, was really not a good person and was always making fun of him.
"Have you publicly fallen out? What's the management's attitude?" Kevin Johnson asked.
"No."
O'Neal shook his head. He is not a person with such a fierce personality and did not openly fall out with Hardaway.
"The management didn't interfere in the locker room, and I don't know what they think." He said regretfully.
"What are you going to do next?" Glider asked.
O'Neal shook his head and said: "If they force me to have no choice, I can only choose to leave. It's not like I have nowhere to go."
"Don't come to the west, stay in the east, change the team and kill the Magic." Lao Wang said quickly.
"That's hard to say..."
O'Neal stared with his little eyes and shouted: "I want to go to a big city, New York or Miami, or Los Angeles. Whichever of them gives me the best contract and respects me more, I will go there."
"Why don't you go to Chicago and hug Jordan's lap?" Lao Wang said angrily.
"They have no room." O'Neal said casually.
"hehe!"
Lao Wang was so angry that he couldn't continue talking. This damn fat guy is so shameless. Looking at his attitude, as long as the Bulls have space, he is really willing to hug Jordan's thigh. The super center has no shame at all.
"If this news gets out, Pat Riley might immediately trade Alonzo Mourning." Lightning complained at this time.
The other three were stunned and nodded in unison.
"Poor Mourning, he still expects the Heat to give him a billion-dollar contract." Drexler, an honest man, sighed.
"That's mine." O'Neal stared, as if his big contract had been taken away by Mourning.
Lao Wang analyzed: "Ewing only has a contract of three million for next season. Damn, Sharks. As long as the league agrees, the Knicks really have room to sign you."
"The same goes for the Lakers," Lightning said.
Zhang Lili analyzed: "What the Knicks want most is Jordan. The Lakers actually have the greatest chance. They currently don't have a real big name. The league will definitely be willing to see the Lakers have a super center. Only then can the Lakers' big market be maintained."
, Shaq went to the Lakers, which is good for the league."
"My favorite team is the Lakers." O'Neal said without hiding it at all.
"What you like most are the female stars in Hollywood, right? Unfortunately, they are not interested in you." Lao Wang directly revealed O'Neal's true face.
"How do you know?" O'Neill said angrily.
"Haha..." The others heard it in amusement and laughed.
However, Zhang Lili then said: "But with the iron army in the west, it is a question whether the alliance is willing to have two giant beasts gather in the west."
Kevin Johnson thought for a while and said: "If Shaq really wants to leave the Magic, the league may not be willing to see him go to the Knicks to join forces with Ewing. Mr. Stern has been balancing the league and probably won't allow it. But let's go.
It's possible for the Heat, but only if the Heat trade Mourning."
A few people chatted and slapped each other, and they didn't disperse until dark.
The next day, Friday, January 17th, game day.
This game is broadcast live across the United States by ABC TV station. In China, it is Saturday, and CCTV also broadcasts it live in real time.
At eight o'clock, both sides announced the starting lineup.
Magic: O'Neal, Horace Grant, Denise Scott, Anfernee Hedaway, Nick Anderson
Suns: Wang Tiejun, Ben Wallace, Michael Finley, Wes Riperson, Elliott Perry.
Zhang Liyi looked at the lineup list in his hand, sighed, and said: "The Magic lineup is a level better than the Suns' current lineup! The Suns are in danger tonight."
Su Qun also nodded and said: "At the fourth position, the Cobra cuts inside very well, and Ben Wallace may not be able to keep up.
His offense is either shooting long two-pointers from the outside, or cutting into the basket, mainly focusing on these two areas. It requires a lot of defenders to follow up. The rookie Ben has little game experience, and it is very difficult to follow up.
It’s easy to lose track of him.”
Zhang Lili continued: "Small forward Denis Steko was the fourth pick in the first round in 1990. He averaged 17.5 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists per game this season. He is much stronger than the rookie Finley.
In addition, with the growth of Penny Hardaway, the Magic's backcourt is now considered the most offensive backcourt combination in the league, and it can definitely crush Perry Person's combination."
Su Qun also looked worried and said: "Five positions, four positions are at a disadvantage, it depends on Mr. K."
"It's hard for the Tiejun, too. My teammates can't help. It broke out three times in a row. It must be very tiring."
Zhang Lili shook his head and said: "And O'Neal is not an ordinary super center. He is the same beast. He is faster, stronger and has better physical fitness than last season. He has been out for 22 games and has better physical fitness than Tiejun."
Too many."
"That's really difficult."
When Su Qun said this, he sighed: "Actually, I really hope to see Old K break Jordan's record of 1987 and score 50 points in four consecutive games. Not counting Chamberlain in ancient times, he is the number one in the history of modern basketball!"
At this time, not to mention hundreds of millions, but at least tens of millions of people in the country are gathering in front of TV sets in every household to watch this game, mainly young people.
With the sudden emergence of Wang Tiejun and the vigorous promotion of CCTV in the past two years, basketball has generated countless fans in the country, and it can even be distinguished from football.
Especially in the capital and Cangzhou, Wang Tiejun’s hometown, there are too many young people who like basketball, and it has even surpassed football in these two areas.
Today, Fengshen Street was overcrowded again, packed with fans coming from all over the city.
The hundreds of bosses were so happy that the popularity of Fengshen Street remained high. They were very happy to put their TVs outside the door for fans to watch the games, because the reason for the greatest popularity of Fengshen Street was the old K Wang Tiejun.
The live broadcast day of the game is the best time to attract popularity.
Behind South Street, behind Bar Street, there are more than twenty open-air basketball courts, plus dozens of acres of open space, and they are now full of fans.
Bai Changsheng specially installed dozens of TV sets in that open space for fans to watch, which will also increase the popularity of Fengshen Street.
To the north of Fengshen Street, demolition work is underway, the sports center has not yet started construction, and the architectural design bidding has not yet been conducted, but a date has been set.
At the American West Arena, Zhang Lili said excitedly: "I'm not exaggerating. If our men's basketball team can perform well at the Atlanta Olympics next year, basketball will take a further step in the country. I won't say it will surpass football, but it will definitely not
Will lose to football."
Su Qun also followed suit and shouted: "That's right, we have Lao K in basketball, a true world-class superstar, who in the domestic football world can compare with him?"
He was so excited that he just talked happily, but he didn't know how many football fans and people in the domestic football community this sentence offended.
In the ABC live broadcast, Bill Walton analyzed: "It will be more difficult for the Suns today. The Magic will not double-team him. In the past three seasons, when O'Neal played against Old K, he never called a double-team, so the Suns have to
Not available.
Rookie Finley is not very capable of attacking with the ball, nor is point guard Perry. Person has a certain ability of attacking with the ball, but that's it. After Old K cannot create openings, it becomes more difficult to launch an outside attack."
Partner John Hanks smiled and nodded: "Old K has scored 50 points in three consecutive games and has now scored 50 points seven times. His powerful offensive ability has attracted the attention of the entire league.
However, we have to see that it is precisely because his teammates in the main lineup do not have strong scoring ability that he must strengthen his offense. In fact, this is overdrawing his potential.
He is not a defender, and his overbearing style of play also determines that every attack must consume more physical energy than other positions, and the wear and tear on the body will be greater.
The league and the media have always believed that his peak period will not last long, and he will fall immediately if he is injured, so I actually do not recommend that he continue to play like this. If he continues to play like this, his body will be extremely tired and he may get injured at any time.
.”
Bill Walton thought for a while and said: "I have to admit that what you said makes sense, but Old K also has his own ideas. He doesn't want to fail, so when the team rebuilds and the strength is not strong, he must be the one to carry the team.
Rush forward.
Now that the Suns still have the best record in the league, you can imagine how fierce and hard he has played this season.
You and I both know what he wants to fight for, yes, mvp. This is a hard honor that a superstar must have. As the core of a team, this is the honor second only to the championship.
Lao K hopes to get it, and to get it, he must pay. No one will succeed casually. He will not get it if he doesn't fight, so he has to fight, even if he pays the price, this is the responsibility of a superstar.